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Change the wwworld...one page at a timeFri, 14 Sep 2012 08:08:31 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Inserting HTML5 Audio Using Adobe Contribute 6.5http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/09/inserting-html5-audio-using-adobe-contribute-6-5.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/09/inserting-html5-audio-using-adobe-contribute-6-5.html#commentsFri, 14 Sep 2012 06:54:20 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/?p=454Continue reading →]]>HTML5 provides a standard for playing audio files. HTML5 defines a new element which specifies a standard way to embed an audio file on a web page: the
element. With Adobe Contribute 6.5 we can insert HTML5 audio files.

Using the HTML5 Audio option, you can insert an audio file of MP3, Ogg, or WAV format. Note that the support for these formats varies in different browsers. The following table displays the audio formats and the supported browser versions.

mp3 / Ogg / Wav: Select the audio file based on the format. You can select the audio from your computer or from a web resource. When you select Browse and select Audio on My Computer, the audio files are displayed based on the file format you selected. However, if you have selected the Audio on Website option, audio files are not displayed based on the file format you selected. If you selected a wrong format, an error message is displayed.

Select the following options appropriately:

Show Audio Control: Selecting this check box displays the audio controls such as Play, Pause, and so on in the loaded web page. If this option is not selected, the Auto Play option is selected by default.

Start Playing the Audio When the Page Loads: If you select this option, the audio starts playing when the page loads.

Repeat: The audio starts playing from the start after it finishes playing.

Click OK.

Edit an audio after inserting

Modify the HTML5 Audio properties by bring the audio properties dialog from the menu item Format > Audio Properties or by double clicking the Audio.

Change the audio properties, such as audio file of the same format and audio options.

Click OK.

Video demo on Insertion of HTML5 Audio

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/09/inserting-html5-audio-using-adobe-contribute-6-5.html/feed0HTML5 Editing Support on Adobe Contribute 6.5http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/08/html5-editing-support-on-adobe-contribute-6-5.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/08/html5-editing-support-on-adobe-contribute-6-5.html#commentsTue, 28 Aug 2012 08:28:09 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/?p=427Continue reading →]]>HTML5 is a new standard for HTML that enhances the browsing experience. The latest version of all major browsers supports many of HTML5 features.

Using Contribute, you can edit HTML5 pages. Contribute supports insertion of HTML5 tags such as video and audio. When you create a new web page, by default, it is of HTML5 type. You are also provided with an option to convert an HTML Doctype to HTML5 Doctype.

This post will detail on the insertion of HTML5 Video and HTML5 Video Properties functionalities.

Insert Video

Using the HTML5 Video option, you can insert a video file of MP4, Ogg, or WebM format. Note that the support for these formats varies in different browsers. The following table displays the video formats and the supported browser versions.

Select a video file in the appropriate field. You are provided with the following options:

MP4 / Ogg / WebM : Select the video file based on the format. You can select the video from your computer or from a website. When you select Browse and select Video on My Computer, the videos are displayed based on the file format you selected. However, when you select the Video on Website option, videos are not displayed based on the file format you selected. If you selected a wrong format, an error message is displayed.

Poster: Select an image that needs to be displayed as a poster.

Display width / Display height: The width and height in which video to be displayed.

Select the following options appropriately:

Show video control: Selecting this check box displays the video controls such as Play, Pause, and so on in the loaded web page.

Start playing the video when the page loads: If you select this option, the video starts playing when the page loads.

Repeat: The video starts playing from the start after it completes playing.

Click OK.

Video Properties

Modify the HTML5 Video properties by bring the Video properties dialog from the menu item Format > Video Properties or by double clicking the video.

You can add a title for the image. The title that you add is displayed as a tool tip when you move the mouse over the image while viewing it. You can also add border color and pattern for the image. To add these attributes, double-click the image. In the Image Properties dialog box, enter the title, border color, and pattern.

Add the Title attribute while adding a link

You can add a title for the link. The title that you add is displayed as a tool tip when you move the mouse over the link.

Sort and search site connection

You can sort the site connections in the My Connection dialog box, Draft Console page, and Welcome screen. This allows you to locate a connection quickly.

Manage locked files

Contribute allows the administrator to see all locked pages and unlock the same. A non-administrator user can view only the pages locked by them. User can also unlock the pages locked by them.

Create Secure FTP connection

In Contribute, you can create a connection through FTPS (FTP Secure). FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for more secure and authentic communication to the server.

Create anchors

Using this option, you can create an anchor in the web page using the anchor icon in the toolbar.

Add Favicon

A Favicon icon, known as shortcut icon, is an image that is associated with a website. This icon appears in the browser’s address bar. A Favicon icon can be added in the website level and web page level.

Edit Spry data set

A Spry data set allows you to set up a website by providing interactive data based on the selections made while viewing the page. These dynamic data comes from an XML file or from an HTML file. You can edit Spry data set files easily.

Add widgets from Adobe Widget Browser

Users can drag-and-drop a widget from Adobe Widget Browser to a web page. Widget Browser allows the user to create and configure widgets.

Search text on Mac machines in the Browse mode

On Mac, you can use the Find option provided in the Edit menu while you are in the Browse mode. You can also use command + F to find a text.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2012/08/adobe-unveils-contribute-6-5-with-html5-support.html/feed3Launch Contribute freshly by deleting Preferenceshttp://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/launch-contribute-freshly-by-deleting-preferences.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/launch-contribute-freshly-by-deleting-preferences.html#commentsTue, 29 Nov 2011 12:51:39 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/?p=340Continue reading →]]>We hear from users that suddenly Contribute is unable to work smoothly as previously. This could be due corruption of Contribute’s preferences which could due to conflict in n/w or OS. How to recover from that ?
I have seen in few places about deleting a folder under web site might solve … but this is not true. We can try deleting the Preferences of Contribute and check, and yes this has resolved the issue for many.

By deleting Contribute Preference and launching it would be like Contribute is freshly installed. All the connections to the websites and Blogs are removed.

If there is a older version of Contribute co-existing then the connection information will Migrate from older version to the newer version while launching, so take care.

Hence before deleting the Preferences take a copy of the drafts or if possible publish or send them for Edit / Review. Same for the Contribute’s Preference files and folders can be renamed or removed from the actual location and stored in an other.

Also ensure that you have the information to reconnect to the websites and blogs like connection keys and URL information, user name, passwords etc.

How to clear the preferences ?

To clear preferences first check the version of Contribute and release name.

On Windows click the menu Help – About Contribute and click on the dialog and note the Version of Contribute. Ex- Version 6.0

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/launch-contribute-freshly-by-deleting-preferences.html/feed1Minimize spelling error while typinghttp://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/minimize-spelling-error-while-typing.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/minimize-spelling-error-while-typing.html#commentsMon, 14 Nov 2011 10:51:02 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/?p=332Continue reading →]]>It is always a good idea to use the Check Spelling command to check the spelling in your draft after you add or edit text. Contribute checks for the spelling and corrects any error if the auto spell check is on. This minimizes spelling errors when typing using the inline spell checker in Contribute. Any spelling errors are flagged with a red squiggle below the incorrect word when you are in the Edit mode. Right-click the flagged word to display options suggested by the dictionary. After you choose the correct option, the flagged word is replaced with the selected word. When you change the dictionary, the background spell checker scans the entire document using the selected dictionary. Any errors flagged with the previous dictionary are removed.

Select the appropriate option based on how you want Contribute to handle the discrepancy.

After you finish checking spelling, click the Close button in the Check Spelling dialog box or click OK in the Spelling Check Completed message box.

The highlight to be mentioned here is there is no performance impact since the spell checker executes in the background.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/11/minimize-spelling-error-while-typing.html/feed0Contribute plug-ins for Firefox version 4 & 5http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/07/contribute-plug-ins-for-firefox-version-4-5.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/07/contribute-plug-ins-for-firefox-version-4-5.html#commentsTue, 19 Jul 2011 08:25:36 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/?p=324Continue reading →]]>Contribute CS5 and CS5.1 browser plug-ins are compatible with Firefox(FF) Version 3. Due change in FF plug-in architecture, Contribute CS5 and CS5.1 plug-ins do not work in FF 4 and 5. So we have created a FF 4 and 5 compatible Contribute plug-in for CS5 and CS5.1. We have posted a Knowledge Base(KB) article about these new plug-in. The KB article provides details about the steps to install the patch.

The patch size on Windows is 230KB and 237KB on Mac. The build can be directly downloaded from here as well.Windows :-

Does Contribute take long time to startup by connecting to all the websites and blogs you had connected to? However, you can select the desired website or blog server and configure Contribute to connect to it during startup or even don’t connect to any site/blog. By default, Contribute is configured not to connect to any website or blog server.

How to configure for individual sites and blog?

Select Edità My Connections. The My Connections dialog box appears.

Select a website or blog server.

Clear the selection of the Don’t connect to web site or blog server name at startup check box to configure Contribute to connect to the selected website or blog server at startup.

Note: – You cannot set this option for a specific blog entry.

Next time you start Contribute, a connection is established to the selected website or blog server only.

How to configure for all sites and blog?

Select Edit à My Connections. The My Connections dialog box appears.

Select each website and blog connection, and do the following:

Enable the connection.

Check the option “Don’t connect to any site at startup (improves Contribute startup time)”.

Click Close.

When you restart Contribute, all connections will be disabled. If you need to have all the connections enabled while launching contribute,

Enable the connection.

Clear the selection of the “Don’t connect to web site or blog server name at startup” check box.

Clear the selection of the “Don’t connect to any site at startup (improves Contribute startup time)” check box.

A favicon is a graphic image associated with a particular Webpage and/or Website.

Now the question comes, how to add a favicon to my website/webpage? To begin with, you will need a small icon that you wish to set as the ‘FavIcon’. It should be 16×16 in size. Once you have the icon ready, rename it to favicon.ico and upload it to your Server root folder, using Contribute through the option File-> Publish File from my Computer.

Alternatively, you can use the below code between the <head></head> (x)HTML tags to set the favicon even though the .ico file in placed in different location.

How to add the code inside the Head tag? Browse to the page in Contribute, do File -> Actions -> Edit Page Source in External Application. Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and starts an external editing application. In the external application, make changes as necessary, and then save your changes and close the file or application. Please refer to the blog post, http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2010/05/edit_web_page_source_in_an_ext.html for more information on Editing in External Application.Note: Simply changing the filename extension of an image to .ico without converting it to an ICO file will result in an error and not displaying the favicon.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/06/how-to-add-favicon-to-your-website.html/feed18Contribute CS5 Launch Issue … Updatedhttp://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/05/contribute-cs5-launch-issue-updated.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/05/contribute-cs5-launch-issue-updated.html#commentsMon, 16 May 2011 10:31:33 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/contribute/2011/05/lately-manycontribute-cs5-launch-issue.htmlContinue reading →]]>Lately,Contribute CS5users have reported that,Contributehangs or crashes on launch. This is after a recent Adobe Update. An update has been posted to fix this problem, and a KB article is published.
To get the update, follow the steps for the corresponding scenario on your machine

5. Note – the serialization would be successful only for the correct language.

6. Optional – Choose the components which should be package.

7. Set the configurations listed as required and packaged msi file is Build.

8. Note the folder Build – contains the msi file and folder Exceptions contains the components which are not installed.

9. To install the msi, open command prompt and navigate to the Build folder and run the command msiexec.exe /i Contribute.msi /qn

10. To serialize, from the command prompt continue to navigate to folder ProvisioningTool from Build folder and run the commandcommand to serialize

Please note on Vista / Windows 7 run the cmd prompt as Administrator.

Where can I find AAMEE – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html

The folder Exceptions contains the components which are not installed via msi. They can be installed separately. Example Adobe Help which might already exists via other Adobe product, else to install it execute the command AIRInstallerRunner.exe -airRuntime AdobeAIRInstaller.exe -silent -eulaAccepted -programMenu -airAppPath AdobeHelp.air.